Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

rsnocial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., August 16, 1887.
Congressman Mills, of Texas, is here to-
any. He took prominent part as az anti
nrohibitionist in the late campaign 10 his
State. and is delighted at his success. He
saws the democrats of Texas are now going
to take charge of their own affairs, and to
wead ont of their party all the prohibition,
high tariff and antiinterna! revenue cranks
that are in if, and that at the next legisla-
tive election they are going TO run can
lidates in every county on platform
pledged to that end. He says the anti-proni..
btiopists carried even the counties OIL
the most influential advocates of prohibition,
Senator Reagan, eX Senator MaXey, ana
Congressman Cubuson.
Miller. the ex-detective of this city who
was removed for crookedness, who figured
Ia the republican purchase OF Indiana 10
1850. and afterwards as q witness Tor Inc
defense in the star route fraud cases, though
employed by the prosecution, is now on the
laborers' roll at the Capitol.
The report OF the civil service commits.
sioneys in the cases of the postmaster and
customs collector at Chicago was made pub.
lie 10 dav. In both cases the accused par
ties are exonorated. The commission takes
the ground that the civil service law does
not prohibit removals, and that no otlicla
having the power 10 remove is compelled
by law TO give his reasons Tor exercising
that power.
The anti Mormon bill has become hobby
with the u. S. prosecuting officers of thi:
district. man, though charged with the
crime Of incest, is now TO be prosecuted
under that bill.
The determination OF the Secretary of the
Navy to expend $75, 600 at the NorfolB
navy ward viii, it is said at the Navy DE
partment, put that yard in condition Il
build iron ships.
Maya! constructor Lewis Nixon, U. 5. N.
of Leesburg, Va, has been appointed mem
Der of the board ri naval officers who are t.
consider the plans OF an English ship-build
ing company for battle ship OF six thou
sand tons displacement.
The decision rendered By Secretary La
mar Yesterday in reference to the indemnify
| lands of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
company, does not deprive that company o
80 900 600 acres of such lands. 1t doe
throw those open TO settlement under tn
preemption and homestead laws, but tn
company still has the right TO select indem
nifty lands for lost lands, though in doing 81
il will have no advantage over the settler.
Capt. Human, U. S. engineer, in his an
nual report, recommends that an appropria
ton of So 600 hn made for the improvement
of the Potomac river at Mt. Vernon. Thi
sum is to be applied TO the enlarging ant
deepening of the basin, widening the chan
mel, and removing the silt which has beer
deposited in the cut.
The argument in tho case ofSurgeon Craw
ford, U. s. N, charged with fornication, ant
being tried under the anti Mormon bill, wa
commenced in the Police Court here to-day
Mr.. Davies, of Manassas, here to-day, says th
delegates from his county. Prince William, to tn
democratic Senatorial district convention to b
held in Alexandria. favor the nomination of hl
Walton Moore, of Fairfax county, and say tina
Fairfax is entitled TO the nomination.
The official report of the capture of seal fisher
n Alaskan waters by U. S. vessels was receives
to-day. 1t contains nothing new, and only show
that the Government is an efficient defender ant
protector of the American fur company monopoly
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